diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c9ef2c793..20db30085 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 ### New features
 
+### Fixes and improvements
+
+## [v1.9.0](https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2/releases/tag/v1.9.0) (2020-03-24)
+
+### New features
+
 * Return 2 additional statistics from file translation APIs:
   * the number of translated examples
   * the total translation time in milliseconds
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 2e0188859..fd1b406dc 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def _maybe_add_library_root(lib_name):
 
 setup(
     name="ctranslate2",
-    version="1.8.0",
+    version="1.9.0",
     license="MIT",
     description="Optimized inference engine for OpenNMT models",
     author="OpenNMT",